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I'm one of the biggest Obsidian fanboys in this galaxy but seeing Alpha Protocol on a list of best anythings still makes me cringe.

That said the list looks solid otherwise. My favorite games are all represented (DX, Morrowind, New Vegas, FO1 and FO2) and some new shit I threw a couple points at even got ranked or a mention (DXHR, Witcher 2).

Honestly, I can't really think of any area in which AP is worse than Bloodlines.

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Art style, agency, plot. You can really get your walk and talk on in Bloodlines, in AP the walking's right out and talking happens in missions, and though it has far more narrative reactivity, you (or at least I) don't feel as if you have as much control over it (on account of the lack of walking)

I'm one of the biggest Obsidian fanboys in this galaxy but seeing Alpha Protocol on a list of best anythings still makes me cringe.

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Alpha Protocol:

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Suffering from troubled development, interminable delays and unpolished controls, Alpha Protocol rated mediocre and sold terribly. At the same time, this is a game which features unparalleled reactivity and nonlinearity, Obsidian's trademark writing, and a gameplay experience that is certainly distinctive. This is a game where you don't just choose from two factions, but choose relations with every character, which has knock-on consequences for the relations between those characters over the course of the story, right up to who you rescue, who helps you, who betrays you, who shoots your nemesis in the face and who rides with you into the sunset. This is a game where those characters' stories and motivations are layered in such a way that you can play several times and never find out their 'big secret'. This is a game where you can raise a false alarm, have the guards run in, blow themselves up on mines you attached to the wall, just before you lob a flame grenade under a truck and the resulting conflagration swallows the rest. This is a game where you can slam a Russian informant's face into the bar table for not cooperating, where your crazy buddy in Hong Kong backs you up with a drive-by machine gun on a subway, and where you can verbally dismantle a man's principles that have defined him for the last thirty years, while dodging his bullets inside a Roman gallery. There are better RPGs than Alpha Protocol, as the list demonstrates; but few of them can deliver the things Alpha Protocol does. That's why you need to play it. Right now. After all, they're selling it for about three cents and half a potato these days.